And the information they exposed resulted in the murder indictment of Edgar Ray Killen, a reputed Klansman.

NPR: 'Mississippi Burning,' 41 Years Too Late

Thirty-eight years after an infamous church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama, killed four black girls, Bobby Frank Cherry, a former Ku Klux Klansman, was finally found guilty of their murder.

ECONOMIST: Time for a fight

In Louisiana, the GOP candidate was Woody Jenkins, a controversial figure who nearly won a Senate race in 1996 but who concealed a campaign payment to ex-Klansman David Duke for his mailing lists.

NPR: GOP Nervous About Trends in Special House Races

Moseley-Braun's term was marked by controversy, including trips to Nigeria to visit the late dictator Sani Abacha, campaign finance questions and a blowup in which she compared columnist George Will to a Ku Klux Klansman.

CNN: Moseley-Braun loses to Republican Fitzgerald